BABY COMES - WITH HELP SPECIAL DELIVERY ENDS DEPUTY'S SHIFT.Byline: Greg GREG Great Egg Harbor National Scenic and Recreational River (US National Park Service) Botonis Staff Writer PALMDALE Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. - A sheriff's deputy answering a 911 call of a 17-year-old girl giving birth never expected he'd he'd 1. Contraction of he had. 2. Contraction of he would. he'd he had or he would he'd have ~would be the one delivering the baby, officials said. Deputy Tim Vanderleek thought he would be able to calm the girl and make sure she was comfortable until paramedics arrived, but when he walked in the apartment door, he saw she was ready to deliver. ``It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have all part of the job. I was just there for support, more of a comfort factor,'' Vanderleek said later. ``She did all the work.'' He added: ``It's a good change in the routine.'' Vanderleek had been driving back to the Palmdale sheriff's station at the end of his graveyard shift graveyard shift n. 1. A work shift that runs during the early morning hours, as from midnight to 8 a.m. 2. The workers on such a shift. Noun 1. when the 911 call came in about 7:30 a.m. Friday that a teenage girl was in labor in the 38000 block of 5th Street East. When he got there, Vanderleek - who drove an ambulance for 1 1/2 years in the early 1980s - saw there was no time. He grabbed a towel and began telling the girl to breathe and push. After about five minutes of coaching, Vanderleek helped an apparently healthy baby boy into the world. The baby started crying immediately. About 30 seconds or a minute later, as Vanderleek was cleaning up the baby, paramedics arrived. They took mother and the baby to Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital, where both are listed in good condition, officials said. Department officials said they have been checking on the status of the baby and mother and that as of Friday afternoon, both were doing well and were expected to be released from the hospital in the next couple of days. |
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